Obverse: Bearded bust of king left, star and crescent above anchor to right

Reverse: Barbarized legend, stylized head left

1.88 weight

Elymais or was an autonomous state of the 2nd century BC to the early 3rd century AD, frequently a vassal under Parthian control, and located at the head of the Persian Gulf.

Elymais struck coins from ca. 150 B.C. until their defeat by the Sasanians in A.D. 227. Most coins show an anchor, perhaps recalling their association with the Seleucid Empire, and the more ancient star-in-crescent symbol of the Achaemenids.

Elymais was the biblical Elam and home of the magi. With its capitol at Susa, it was a small kingdom